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Dec 14, 2016

My Least Favorite Christmas Songs

Some songs just drive you straight up a tree. You might love some of these songs, and that's totally OK. Obviously, they resonate with someone because they are "hits," but I'd be completely happy to not hear any of them ever again.

1. Christmas Shoes
I heard about 5 seconds of this one today in the car and I can't stop hearing it now. It isn't even a good song. It's intended to manipulate people and make them cry, just like all the fictional tearjerkers on Facebook.

2. Last Christmas
I really liked George Michael in both his Wham! and solo career, back in the olden days. I can't help but wonder if he was tired when he wrote this one.
George: "Sorry, I can't seem to think of any more rhymes. Let's just keep singing the same verse over and over. At the end, we'll shake it up a bit, but it will still be more of the same words."
Bandmate: "Brilliant!"

George, dude, you're wearing a wedding ring, why are you brooding about the chick who gave your heart away?

3. It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year.
Apparently (according to wiki), telling "scary ghost stories" was a quaint old Victorian tradition, that's pretty much forgotten. My grandparents were born in 1900 and 1904, basically the end of the Victorian era, but you'd think it would have been a tradition when they were small and it would have been mentioned at some time or other. Either way, that's all I can think about when I hear this song. Obsessive much? Perhaps.

4. Sleigh Ride
While not a terrible song, per se, I am adding it to the list because it romanticizes something so uncomfortable. For a sleigh ride, you need snow. For snow, you need cold. We're looking at a wind chill of -30*F later this week. I don't like being cold. I'm cold all the time in the house, wearing layers. Brrr... So, yeah.

5. John Lennon's So This is Christmas
As someone in the household says, "He's a hippy." I'm sure there's more to it than that, but it for sure makes the list of annoying Christmas songs.